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use in the section of the country where he resides, and many of the finest herds 

 are the progeny of stock purchased from him. 



He has been an exhibitor at the local agricultural fairs and his cattle have 

 uniformly drawn a large number of prizes. 



Mr. Trexler married in 1852 and has three sons, who are Col. H. C. Trexler, 

 a member of the E. W. Trexler Lumber Co. of Allentown and of the Trexler & 

 Turrell Lumber Co. of Ricketts, Pa. ; E. Gr. Trexler, also in the lumber business 

 at Ricketts, and Frank M. Trexler, an attorney at law, now and for many years 

 city solicitor for the city of Allentown, Pa. 



MR. DON J. WOOD of West Exeter, N. Y., was born in 1860 in the town of 

 Plainfield, Otsego county, N. Y., on the farm which has ever since been his 

 home. 



After a course of study in the West Winfield Academy he taught school 

 during the winter of 1878-9, and the next winter attended Eastman's National 

 Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from which he was graduated in 

 March, 1881. 



Mr. Wood's first acquaintance with the Holstein-Friesian cattle was in the 

 fall of 1874, when his father and uncle bought an imported cow and bull calf. 

 He helped to raise and develop the grade Holsteins which gradually replaced 

 the old dairy of mixed blood, and then in turn to replace these with registered 

 Holstein-Friesians. 



In the spring of 1883 Mr. Wood in connection with his brother, A. C. Wood, 

 commenced to conduct the home farm. 



In 1884 he became a member of the Holstein Breeders' Association, and in 

 1886 he purchased his brother's interest in the herd, which at that time con- 

 tained a number of pure-bred Holstein-Friesians descended from his father's 

 original purchase and from subsequent additions to the herd. 



He early commenced to make systematic tests of his cows and has been an 

 enthusiastic supporter of the system of Advanced Registry since its adoption 

 by the Holstein-Friesian Association in 1885. 



He has also taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the association 

 for making officially authenticated butter records and has had several members 

 of his herd officially tested for butter fat with excellent results. 



As a result of careful testing and selection, aided by judicious purchases, 

 Mr. Wood now has a herd of nearly fifty registered Holstein-Friesians of high 

 average production and containing descendants of many of the most noted 

 animals of the breed. 



MR. J. F. WOODYARD, Parkersburg, W. Va., was born April 28, 1850, in 

 Wood county. He was reared on the farm and acquired a good common school 

 education. When seventeen years of age he took charge of a flour and grist 

 mill and successfully ran it for several years. At the age of twenty he returned 

 to the farm and at twenty-one was married. 



He then purchased a tract of land in the woods near Parkersburg, for which 

 he paid $35 per acre and went in debt for the larger portion of the purchase 

 money. In a short time he cleared this land and seeded it down to blue grass, 

 and was occupied in the buying and shipping of stock to the Baltimore and 

 Philadelphia markets from 1876 to 1885. 



In 1886 he engaged in the dairy business, and purchased his first pure-bred 

 Holstein cattle in 1887. This foundation consisted of a bull and two cows, which 

 Mr. Woodyard, relying upon his own experience and ability, selected himself. 

 Mr. Woodyard believes that a successful judge of dairy stock must have actual 

 experience in the milking, testing and handling of dairy cows, and that the 

 selection of animals by persons not having this experience is apt to result 

 disastrously. 



Mr. Woodyard long since discarded the idea of a combination beef and dairy 

 cow, and believes them to be unprofitable cattle. He is of the opinion that a 

 medium sized animal is the better dairy cow, though he is inclined to cite a few 

 exceptions, such as Pietertje 2d, a large cow and one which made the world's 

 record of 30,318 Ibs. of milk in one year; but he accounts for this enormous 

 yield in conjunction with the size by stating that she was not a large boned 

 beefy animal in appearance, but was possessed more nearly of a pure milch type. 



Among the foundation animals which he purchased was the bull Shadeland 

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